Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only documented proofs of unfair practices offered at the hearing were made by the Student Intercultural Fellowship. Ernest M. Howell '47, co-chairman of the group, said last night that the Fellowship submitted a survey of discrimination in business and secretarial schools in Boston...
...mark is based on the results of an hour exam. The rule was established because the Faculty felt that veterans returning to Harvard were naturally out of the practice of taking exams; in view of the emphasis the graduate schools were placing on paper grades it would be unfair to make the returning student stand or fall on the first set of college exams he had faced in from three to five years. Another factor was the student who had never been to Harvard before, who because of war credits of one kind or another was entering as a full...
...seven weeks' rule is also completely unsatisfactory from the standpoint of many members of the Faculty. In advanced courses, hour exams are often totally unsuited to the nature of the plan of study, with the result that they form an artificial and thoroughly unfair method of measuring student ability. Tutors find that their tutees have to abandon tutorial work for a period of a week or more in order to prepare for hour exams. And finally, many members of the Faculty, working within the constrictions of the war-shortened semester, find that the necessity for giving hour exams further reduces...
Opposing proposed representation based on economic power as being unfair to countries without great natural resources or industrial development, he hoped to see "a world representative legislative assembly, numerically chosen according to the educational level of a country...
...Conan Doyle and Peter Lorre might be a treat for detective-story fans. As it is, "The Verdict" can boast of only the latter two, and the resultant weaknesses in the plot dilute a pair of top chiller performances. The mystery is weak, the logic strained and the outcome unfair to those connoisseurs who want their murder mysteries to be more than gory fairy tales...